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lock this thread for 12 hours?

i think you're missing the point: it just isn't well enough known to start on. if you can't motivate your audience to get interested in your game, then it's not a job well done.

i'll bet 99% of people here didn't know what your mod was before this, which is not how this should work.

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This isn't an attempt at suspense, merely building an awareness of the project before we go 'nuclear' tonight I knew a lot of you would dismiss this immediately as everybody these days desires content thrown at there face for it to be credited as legitimate.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CanvasMod

http://www.canvasgame.com

http://www.canvasgame.com/acanthus

You guys need to chill out a tad

Thank you. Now there's some context as to what the hell you've been talking about since the OP.

Can anyone tell me what the fuck is going on in this thread? Too lazy to read it all.

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Fair enough. I will make this my last post regarding the project. But it's a shame you guys didn't take so warmly to it, because it's got some brilliant talent involved. Yes, it looks like I'm trying lead you all down the rabbit hole, but a bit of patience on your part would have gone a long way. If you are unwilling to check back tonight, consider it and opportunity missed to become familiarised with Canvas

Sorry if I wasted your time.

dude no one knows what your project is or who you are, posts like this are made everyday somewhere, you can't expect hype or interest with out a bit of proof of work.

I do hope its pretty cool when you show it but cryptic stuff like this only works when you are really well known.

having seen quite a few campaigns, here's what I'd have done:

Release two or three really high-quality screens, maybe a short cutted teaser with great actual content.

as soon as everyone starts going hooray on it, release another picture, with a "failure signal" in it, that hints toward the whole ARG-thing. do that on every portal/community you want to participate. adding communities later will not work as you won't get people into the right mindset later.

Now make a post saying, "here' something for you: our latest update... signal error, binary code, what ever". people might want to check out what it is about. If you deliver great content (this time maybe something second source like concept art) it will get people interested in a long term update.

then, and only then you can stretch it. Starting out in one community by just binary linking to a blog it take ages to understand, will only lead to frustration and confusion.

I'm very much looking forward to your release later, see what you got there.

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Fair enough. I will make this my last post regarding the project. But it's a shame you guys didn't take so warmly to it, because it's got some brilliant talent involved. Yes, it looks like I'm trying lead you all down the rabbit hole, but a bit of patience on your part would have gone a long way. If you are unwilling to check back tonight, consider it and opportunity missed to become familiarised with Canvas

Sorry if I wasted your time.

So the cryptic stuff wasn't the announcement on a new mod? It's more content of this so called Canvas mod?

Dunno, just post it in the WIP section. I guess people will be more positive.

Also, what everyone else said. It only works if you know *something* from the start. I'll speak for myself here, I didn't know you, nor the team, nor the mod. All I saw was gibberish, for all we know it could've been a bot posting (happens once a week or something). If I were a fan of the mod and checked out your page regularly or we here at mapcore would've been introduced with it slightly before. Then perhaps we would've welcomed it more.

I hope you see the reason for our rather harsh replies but it seems a bit nonsensical. We love to see new content, but I guess you just introduced it a bit wrong in this regard

Post the stuff in 12h in the WIP section, unless it's a finished mod, in that case Work Release.

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Hey it's cool. I'll answer some of your questions and concerns.Alot of the team are well known members that derive from places like Interlopers and Polycount. The project lead was the lead for the HL2 mod Nightfall. to be honest, and it's the fault on my behalf, I assumed before posting any clues that the Mapcore community would of had some vague idea of Canvas, seeing as I recognise some members on other forums. And didn't quite expect the irritation that would entail.

This wasn't any sort of ARG, or announcement, it was supposed to be a little trail of clues very shortly before we officially announce in a couple of hours. I ballsed it up I can see now .P But I can assure you it's not a 'derp I has mod guise hey' type episode. it's something that's been brewing for the last couple of years.

You will get your media I promise, and I hope clarified myself, something I should have done to begin with. Apologies!

Edit: The Time is Now...

Our motto here on mapcore is: no pix no clix. Hope you understand that and don't get mad at us!

I am glad to have found out there is a golden end to this strange thread